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Quotes About Uncertainty

The HTX-20 isn't' supposed to explode unless it gets bumped around too much. Right, Badger? Mal pressed. That's right. Or gets wet or hot or all that other gubbins. We went over it, didn't we? You need a refresher course? No, it's just that crate got bumped. How do we know things are still all right? Badger looked at him as if Mal was the stupid one. We're not dead. Hard to argue with that.
~ James Lovegrove
We'll get this sorted out," Galen said, trying to sound optimistic. "You're not through with us yet.
~ James Luceno
Well, could even a Jedi know the future?
~ James Luceno
For a brief moment he glimpsed a new destiny opening before his eyes, a window into a future he had never imagined for himself, a path to an entirely different life, and yet just as quickly as the window opened it closed, slammed shut as much by long years of training as by a feeling of trepidation.
~ James Luceno
You never know where one step will take you, and you never know where the next one will lead. The
~ James M. Kouzes
Most times I don't know what I'm doing. Sometimes I feel like I don't hardly know enough to tie my own shoes.
~ James McBride
Everybody got God on their side in war. Problem is, God ain't tellin' nobody who He's for.
~ James McBride
Family love: It is firm footing, something to cling to in a frightened world that seems to spin out of control with war, turmoil, terrorism, and uncertainty. It is our highest calling and our greatest nobility.
~ James McBride
Now he was as lost as the rest of us, and didn't know his way out of the particular patch of woods and that homestead any more than a bird knows his way out of a privy with the door closed, but he was the leader, and he had found what he wanted.
~ James McBride
You think you're prepared. You think you've done everything you're supposed to, study hard, work hard, keep yourself out of trouble, and then—whoosh! Something arrives out of the blue that you never saw coming. Something you never even imagined. Something that'll knock your little world off its axis. Something that'll either change your life for the better, or end it forever. Chaos.
~ James Michael Rice
It is difficult to be king when the gods are changing.
~ James Michener
We are playful when we engage others at the level of choice, when there is no telling in advance where our relationship with them will come out-- when, in fact, no one has an outcome to be imposed on the relationship, apart from the decision to continue it.
~ James P. Carse
Sometimes when you're at your most certain, that's when everything you know is wrong.
~ James Patterson
The house was on fire, i greeted them tersely. In case you're interested. they both glanced up overhead as if to make sure the house was still standing. Fang sniffed, smelling the smoke. It's out, right? he said
~ James Patterson
I looked around. As flock leader, everyone was expecting me to make a decision. Jeb's presence here would bring uncertainty, chaos, probably danger. It would perk up my day.
~ James Patterson
Please, I begged silently, please do not let my last moments on earth be me crammed into a tiny boat in the dark, surrounded by mechanical singing pirates.
~ James Patterson
I wouldn't trust you if you were the last life raft leaving the Titanic."-max
~ James Patterson
I hung my head, and I felt someone, Fang, gather me gently to him. My cheek rested on his shoulder, and my silent tears soaked his torn shirt.He felt warm and strong and heartbreakingly familiar. And at that moment, not a single thing in my life was certain, strong, or whole. Nothing. Least of all Fang.
~ James Patterson
Hey. Not sure what's going on-gonna go find out. Be careful and don't do anything stupid. Don't come after me-your better on your own. See you. F I sat on the edge of the bed, holding the note. Okay, so Fang had looked up vague in the dictionary and this was what it had said to write.
~ James Patterson
I stood there watching Phoebe arrange the pillows and the sheets. She isn't thinking that I... I mean, she doesn't think that she and I would... WHAT?
~ James Patterson
I was afraid of what I felt. But was that the only reason it was so hard to admit it to him? Or was I afraid that he didn't feel the same? Yes, I was definitely afraid of that.
~ James Patterson
It's so strange. Everything can be going alone just great, and then one day, whack, you're blindsided-- a lousy, crammy blow you didn't see coming.
~ James Patterson
Life can be like walking on a high wire. Falling seems a tiny misstep away.
~ James Patterson
Is it possible that you can love someone more than you love life itself, and yet you're still never going to know for sure everything he's thinking?
~ James Patterson